Limbaugh: 'Weiner isn't Clinton'

Rush Limbaugh has a theory for why Anthony Weiner’s bid for New York mayor, even when bolstered by his wife’s insistence to speak for his character, isn’t working: Weiner, he says, isn’t Bill Clinton.

“There are a number of Drive-By Media outlets who think Weiner’s gotta go now. And there is a huge backlash against Huma [Abedin], because the bottom line is, Weiner isn’t Clinton,” the conservative radio host said on his Thursday show, according to a transcript.

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Limbaugh pointed out that the former president was always popular within the Democrat Party, and thus still enjoyed some support and still remained relatively well-liked despite his own scandals. Weiner doesn’t enjoy that same protection.

“Democrats outside of New York wish this guy [Weiner] would go away. There isn’t a whole lot of respect for him,” Limbaugh said. “Weiner is now being laughed at in ways that never happened to Clinton.”

“So the idea that Huma can do Hillary and save Weiner the way Hillary saved Clinton probably doesn’t wash,” he added.

On Wednesday several critics were at hand to either praise Abedin’s effort to protect her husband and “stand by her man” or bash her for being “power hungry” and following Hillary Clinton’s model of forgiveness. Limbaugh called her a “doormat.”

“Her loyalty is to Hillary Clinton and her role model is Hillary Clinton. Doormats. Doormats with the promise of a payoff later down the road,” Limbaugh said Wednesday.